Bundling & minification not applying css & js using Asp.net 4.0 C#

Question

I am new to this concept, this is my first project implementing the optimization concept with (Bundling & minification)

Just i am trying to test with simple js

Answer 1

Prasad Raja,

When debugging or when your web.config has the setting

the script bundling and minification is disabled. Also if you set EnableOptimizations = false will also disable budling and minification regardless of the debug=true setting.

Try changing your web.config and try again.

OK so after I reviewed the code and dug deeper into the problem the reason why this is happening is the paths ~/bundles/js and ~/bundles/css exist. Therefore your IIS (Express) is trying to load the contents of the directory. To get this to work ensure you set your compilation debug = false (it was set to true on the project download). Such as

Next locate the ~/bundle folder and DELETE IT... Finally rebuild your application and run the project. However dont run it in debug or it will try and set your debug flag above back to true.

This is working on my machine now for both JS and CSS.